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Welcome, alumni and friends! Do you remember your UT fight song? Or the words to "Fair Toledo?" Brush up on the lyrics to "U of Toledo" and the Alma Mater below.

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The UT Fight Song

"U of Toledo" was written in 1932 by Dave Connelly, UT athletic director and
baseball coach through much of the 1930s and 1940s. Connelly also coached
football, track and boxing. He joined the UT staff as a professor in 1926, where
he remained until his death in 1955. Connelly loved to sing, but had never
studied music. Apparently, previous fight songs were no longer in use, so he
wrote the words for "U of Toledo" and sang the melody to a family friend, Bernie
Jones. Jones played it on the piano and put it to music. The tune remained
largely unchanged until 1975, when UT Associate Professor of Music David Jex
arranged the current version.

"U of Toledo"

U of Toledo, we’ll fight for you (fight, fight, fight)
U of Toledo, love that gold and blue (let’s go blue)
Men of the Varsity, the enemy must yield
We’ll fight just like our ancestors
And march right down the field
T-O-L-E-D-O... TOLEDO!

The UT Alma Mater

"Fair Toledo"
was selected from eight entries which were submitted in the UT Alma Mater Song
Contest, sponsored jointly by the Student Senate and the Alumni Association in
1959. The competition was held to replace "Golden and Blue," set to "Amici," a
tune used by various universities.

While driving to work, Gilbert Mohr heard Jim Uebelhart announce the contest on
the radio in January of that year. An amateur songwriter, Mohr began humming
different tunes, and later with his wife, Jean Strout, wrote the lyrics. Their
Alma Mater entry won the contest and the couple received a $100 government bond.
"Fair Toledo" debuted at halftime of the Marshall-Toledo basketball game on
March 2, 1959.